Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Candid Admission: We Do Want to Reprogram Your Kids   [George Leef]

Sometimes you come across a truthful statement by a leftist who admits that he wants to reprogram students, discrediting old, bigoted ideas and replacing them with fresh, wonderful, enlightened progressive ones. The late Richard Rorty was one of them. Consider the following from Rorty and His Critics:

The late Richard Rorty, the philosopher and devout atheist, is refreshingly honest. He argued that secular professors like himself need to “arrange things” so that incoming students who enter college “as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists” will “leave college with views more like our own.” The goal of education, said Rorty, is to help these youth “escape the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.” Rorty was bracingly candid in his message to parents: “We are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.”

I suspect that a full list would have included not only religion, but private property, the rule of law, and capitalism.

Hat tips to Paul Kengor and Roger Ream.

05/13 10:49 AMShare